From: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:51:03 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120128195103.GA11299@sergelap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPXgP12REAwmDORzdGJhsxZKU8nhiauCxoVdKa8Eifw4MWWtgA@mail.gmail.com>
Quoting Kay Sievers (kay.sievers@vrfy.org):
> We might also thing about changing /sys/class/tty/ptmx/, and have the
> kernel create the symlink? The loops through userspace to setup
> default kernel stuff are kind of crazy ...
>
> Kay
Hi Kay,
sorry, there is something I'm missing here. Without a target kobj
to link to, how would we go about telling the kernel that /dev/ptmx
should be a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx? Is there a way to do that?
thanks,
-serge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-28 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-24 0:05 [RFC] fix devpts mount behavior Serge Hallyn
2012-01-24 0:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-24 0:25 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-01-24 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-01-24 1:07 ` Al Viro
2012-01-24 18:21 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 20:16 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2012-01-24 20:53 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 20:24 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-24 22:02 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 22:54 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-24 23:16 ` Serge Hallyn
2012-01-24 23:25 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2012-01-24 23:29 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2012-01-24 23:27 ` Kay Sievers
2012-01-28 19:51 ` Serge Hallyn [this message]
2012-01-28 20:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-28 21:32 ` Kay Sievers
2012-09-23 3:47 ` [PATCH 0/4] devpts: " Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 3:48 ` [PATCH 1/4] devpts: Remove CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 3:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] devpts: Set the default permissions of /dev/pts/ptmx and /dev/ptmx to 0666 Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 3:50 ` [PATCH 3/4] devpts: Make the newinstance option historical Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 4:19 ` Al Viro
2012-09-23 4:46 ` Al Viro
2012-09-23 5:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 6:30 ` Al Viro
2012-09-23 6:34 ` Al Viro
2012-09-23 7:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 3:51 ` [PATCH 4/4] devpts: Update the documentation Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 16:48 ` [PATCH 0/4] devpts: fix devpts mount behavior H. Peter Anvin
2012-09-23 17:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-23 17:44 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-01-24 23:35 ` [RFC] " Eric W. Biederman
2012-01-24 20:55 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2012-01-24 21:19 ` Nick Bowler
2012-01-24 0:26 ` Al Viro
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